So, I tested some BLM rotations...

[Theremita]

I've come back after not subbing when my free trial is over, not used to all the new 2.1 stuff yet but I'm about to try Cutter's Cry. I'm level 40

I've been doing manaward -> thunder II -> raging strikes -> spam fire 3 until out of mana -> transpose -> spam blizzard 3 until transpose is back -> transpose -> spam fire 3

I thought now would be a good time to get some advice and change it up before I carry on. I don't have flare yet but I have freeze, convert, apocastastasis, swiftcast, surecast, sleep and scathe but never know when or who to use them on

I also have fire 1, blizzard 1 and thunder 1 but only keep them to hand incase I need to damage a little bit. I have Fire 2 and blizzard 2 but use them only as area of effect.

Any suggestions anyone?

[SirGazuntai]

I've come back after not subbing when my free trial is over, not used to all the new 2.1 stuff yet but I'm about to try Cutter's Cry. I'm level 40

I've been doing manaward -> thunder II -> raging strikes -> spam fire 3 until out of mana -> transpose -> spam blizzard 3 until transpose is back -> transpose -> spam fire 3

I thought now would be a good time to get some advice and change it up before I carry on. I don't have flare yet but I have freeze, convert, apocastastasis, swiftcast, surecast, sleep and scathe but never know when or who to use them on

I also have fire 1, blizzard 1 and thunder 1 but only keep them to hand incase I need to damage a little bit. I have Fire 2 and blizzard 2 but use them only as area of effect.

Any suggestions anyone?

At 44 you'll get Firestarter. With this, every time you use Fire I, you get a 40% chance that each Fire III will be insta-cast and cost 0 MP. Your main rotation will be Thunder I/II/III > Fire III > Spam Fire until low MP > Blizz III > Repeat. You can add Raging Strikes and such when necessary. You'll probably use this until 50.

After that practice some of the rotations in the main post. They'll be the ones you use from then on, though the above rotation will still be your main Single Target rotation the majority of the time.